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Allergan is suing Pfizer over morphine-based opioid drugs, Kadian, that Allergan acquired in December 2008. Read more if you wish to know more about this matter.
IGM Biosciences, a privately-held biotech company located in Mountain View, California, announced that Daniel S. Chen will be the company’s new chief medical officer. Chen arrives from Genentech/Roche, where he was most recently vice president, Global Head of Cancer Immunotherapy.
Astex Pharmaceuticals, a member of the Otsuka group of companies, and Otsuka Pharmaceutical, indicated their guadecitabine (SGI-110) missed its co-primary endpoints in acute myeloid leukemia (AML).
HIV patients have some good news this morning. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Janssen Pharmaceutical’s Symtuza, the first and only complete darunavir-based single-tablet regimen (STR) for the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1).
The good news keeps coming for Janssen Pharmaceuticals’ SGLT2 diabetes drug Invokana. Late Monday the company said it was halting its Phase III chronic kidney disease trial early due to the fact that the drug had already achieved pre-specified efficacy data.
In a particularly large result, a St. Louis jury awarded almost $4.7 billion in total damages to 22 women and their families in a lawsuit against Johnson & Johnson.
Months after tapping GlaxoSmithKline dermatology division executive David Rubenstein as its new chief scientific officer, Vivek Ramaswamy’s Dermavant Sciences has returned to the pharma giant to acquire a Phase III-ready psoriasis treatment.
Boston, New York, San Diego and San Francisco are the typical spots that people refer to when they think about biotech hotspots in the United States. But don’t discount New Jersey.
It’s hard to believe 2018 is half over. There have been plenty of interesting and important stories in the biopharma space this year. Here’s a look at our top 10 stories so far, counting down from 10 to the number one story.
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